Abstract
The economic feasibility studies of the proposed projects are considered one of the important studies that attract the attention of authorities, planners, researchers, and agricultural economic policymakers because the decision to implement the project depends on the results of the economic feasibility study, which expresses the optimal way to exploit the available economic resources, as well as its role in clarifying the means of maximizing production and minimizing costs. Our research aims to prepare an economic, technical, and financial feasibility study for the establishment and operation of a model farm specialized in raising dairy cows in the city of Mosul, to reduce the gap in milk production and consumption, based on the hypothesis that cow farms have high economic and financial feasibility in the production of raw milk. To prove the hypothesis of the research, a feasibility study was prepared for the project of raising dairy cows in the city of Mosul. Several conclusions were reached, the most important of which was the existence of economic and financial feasibility resulting from the implementation of such projects in the city of Mosul, and the lack of cow farms producing raw milk and the high costs of inputs, we recommend importing animals of selected origins and breeds that give high milk productivity, regulating feed prices and providing them at subsidized prices, and striving to protect the local product from foreign competition.
